Vancouver: The advisory board for Rogers Broadcasting’s proposed multicultural station lmtv, one of the spurned applicants in Vancouver’s race for new stations in July, will appeal to the federal cabinet to overturn the crtc’s decision….

Vancouver: Local filmmaker Bruce Sweeney, a Mike Leigh follower, is back at the helm of his new film The Last Wedding. Like his previous film Dirty, Wedding has gone through a long development process that has included workshops with actors to…

Vancouver: The hard-line retrenchment of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to compel u.s. stars working in Canada to pay 30% more in income tax starting Jan. 1 will have a devastating effect on Canadian service production….

For an increasing number of Canadian documentary crews, crossing the u.s. border to get their stories will continue to be a game of roulette – at least in the near future – until diplomacy and veiled threats work their political magic….

Vancouver: Year-end results for Lions Gate Entertainment of Vancouver show a 129% increase in revenue and the continued draining effects of Mandalay Pictures, its feature film production division….

Vancouver: Mark Benard, president and digital effects supervisor of Vancouver post house Lost Boys Studios, has purchased back shares of his company held by Virgin Digital Studios….

Vancouver: Rainmaker Digital Pictures, a division of Rainmaker Entertainment of Vancouver, has introduced a new Digital Design Internship for aspiring visual effects artists. The program is sponsored in part by the National Research Council….

Vancouver: Omni Film Productions of Vancouver is producing its first two series financed without government subsidy….

Vancouver: In a sweeping decision that changes the West Coast broadcasting landscape, the crtc has given CanWest Global nearly everything it wanted in the transfer of assets from WIC Western International Communications. The crtc also approved two new stations and a…

Vancouver: Four commercial film crew members were lost June 22 during an aerial shoot when their helicopter crashed into the Llewellyn Glacier in northern British Columbia….

Vancouver: On June 25, fire destroyed the production offices and two of four studios leased by Shavick Entertainment on West 2nd and Quebec Street in Vancouver. No one was injured….

Vancouver: Fifty percent of production at Vancouver’s Atomic Cartoons is Flash animation for the Internet and almost half the 30 employees are at work on Web productions….